One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more depressing than you may realize.

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... The study was part of a broader initiative to discover the causes of bird ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing ...

Dodos (Raphus cucullatus) went extinct as a direct result of European colonization in Mauritius.(Image credit: Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images) The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a ...

This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen creatures from the ice is a bad idea. Many scientists felt that recovering the ...

The dodo was surprisingly also a type of dove ... funded by the National Science Foundation to discover the causes of bird extinction in the Caribbean over the last several thousand years.

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird – fat and flightless ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences unveiled plans in 2021 to revive the woolly mammoth - and later the dodo bird.